Yanik Silver: 9 ‘Inner Secrets’ of Personal Success

In only six months, I banked over $50,000, just working part-time out of the corner of my living room. Now, I’ve gone on to earn over 7-figures each year.

How did I go from a standing start to banking mega profits?

To do that, I think you really need inner secrets to mega internet success. This has nothing to do with search engines or pay-per-clicks. It’s all a lot of stuff that goes on in your head.

Secret #1: Cheerful Expectancy

There’s a difference between having expectancy versus hope. When you are cheerfully expectant, you know it’s going to occur. And that’s not from being “Pollyannaish” or having rose-colored glasses.

Try this exercise yourself: close your eyes and try to HOPE you’ll make $1 million this year (or whatever number might get you excited). Just sit there and hope and hope.

Now if you pay attention you’ll notice you’ll probably a little bit slumped over, and if you had to stake your life on it – there’s no way you’d bet you really would make that mil this year.

Now try the same exercise but this time EXPECT to earn $1 million.

Now look at the way you are sitting, breathing and feeling. I’d wager it’s a little different. Your expectations determine your results.

Secret #2: Set Your Plan

Set a goal, then figure out how you’re going to get there, and then break it up into daily tasks.
So where are you going? Write it down.

And you’ve got to be specific. You can’t just say, “I want to make a whole lot more money online.” What is that, like $5 more? Nobody knows what that is.

And always write down “or more.” So if you say, “I want to make $100,000,” I always say, “I want to make $100,000 or more by so-and-so date, or sooner,” This gives yourself that opportunity to remove limitations.

How are you going to get there? Get those intermediate goals set up first. Because if you get the little building blocks going, it’s a lot easier to get to where you want to go.

Secret #3: Do One Proactive Thing A Day

It’s easy to be overwhelmed with hundreds of tasks. But just relax and do one task a day. Even if you’re dead tired and worked a 14-hour day job – come home and mail one letter or send out one joint venture proposal. I’m telling you – just these little tiny proactive things will have an immense impact.

Secret #4: Unless You Deliver Exceptional Value – You Will Not Get Rich

One of my core values is: “I get rich by enriching others 10 to 100 times what they pay me in return.”

So any product, any service, or absolutely anything I offer, must deliver 10 to 100 times in value.

When you deliver that much value, the marketplace compensates you. This goes along with a famous quote motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar frequently uses and that is “You can get anything you want if you help enough people get what they want.”

Secret #5: Build On Your Successes

Each success is going to create another success for you. I suggest you start small at first.

My friend John Reese says, “Make your first dollar online.”

If you make just $1 online, you’re already ahead of a lot of people.

Start with a project that you can manage to get going quickly and easily. Remember, there can always be a second version or an updated edition. It’s better to put something out there, and see the response than it is to be absolutely perfect. Fact is, you will never have a perfect product or service.

Secret #6: Decision

A lot of people have so many problems with decision, even the simplest ones like “Where do you want to go to dinner?”

That’s because they don’t like it because it cuts off other options. But frankly that’s exactly what you want.

It’s just like Hernando Cortes during the Spanish Conquest. Cortes was determined to conquer the Aztecs of Mexico, and he realized that some of his men wanted to return to Cuba because they didn’t think they could walk through 200 miles of jungle and swamps, climb mountains, avoid thousands of hostile Indians and attack the Aztec fortress city, which was surrounded by water. To keep his men from deserting, Cortes removed the sails, rigging, compasses, and all other valuables from all but one ship and burned the others.

You probably don’t need to be that bold, but if you cut off your options, you’re much more motivated.

Secret #7: Continual Learning

It doesn’t matter what happens to you. Nobody can take away your knowledge. Look, if somebody came, took away my entire business and if they just left me with my customer list, the knowledge in my head and the people I know, I’d be right back on my feet within a month, two months, three months, tops.

Continual learning is the key. Remember, your brain is like a bucket with a hole in it. So you put all of this stuff in it, and slowly it just kind of seeps out. You’ve got to keep replenishing the stuff in there.

This specialized knowledge you keep feeding yourself is going to help you get to any level you want.

Secret #8: Gratitude

This is one of those woo-woo, kind of fluffy metaphysical things – but it works.

Every time I check my email, and I have orders come in, I actually silently say, “Thank you” for each one. It sounds strange but having gratitude keeps you connected to the source of what’s bringing you what you want.

Secret #9 – Giving

There is magic in giving a fixed percentage of your income WILLINGLY to charities, religious organizations or just individuals in need.

A lot of people talk about how they want to donate some huge sum of money to a charity or their church but then never get around to it. Frankly, I think it’s because it is not a systematic, regimented giving plan.
You cannot out-give the universe, which means that everything you give away will come back to you tenfold.